1. Happiness is a direction, not a destination.
-Unknown
2. Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
-Bill Cosby
3. Love yourself.
4. Where there is love, there is life.
-Gandhi
5. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
6. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
-Jimmy Johnson
7. An eye for an eye only makes the world blind.
-Gandhi
8. Bring deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-Lao Tzu
9. Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristole
10. If you're doing your best, you won't have time to worry about failure.
-H. Jackson Brown Jr
11. The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
-Robert Byrne
12. We can't solve problems by using the same thinking we used to create them.
-Albert Einstein
-Unknown
2. Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
-Bill Cosby
3. Love yourself.
4. Where there is love, there is life.
-Gandhi
5. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
6. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
-Jimmy Johnson
7. An eye for an eye only makes the world blind.
-Gandhi
8. Bring deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-Lao Tzu
9. Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristole
10. If you're doing your best, you won't have time to worry about failure.
-H. Jackson Brown Jr
11. The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
-Robert Byrne
12. We can't solve problems by using the same thinking we used to create them.
-Albert Einstein
Let this set of famous quotes be your encouragement and motivation for work today or whatever it is you may be doing in life! I truly love these inspiring quotes and want to give a very special thanks to lovelydreamms of tumblr for creating this magnificent collage of amazing quotes to live by.
Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it.
The world is a mysterious place full of troubles, obstacles, challenges, hard times, ghettos, those without, but we must also take time to think of the success stories that the world has produced as well. It is a little known fact that a lot of millionaires were not even college graduates, some not even high school graduates. Sam Walton grew up in middle class America and grew his chain of stores into a billion dollar chain, of what we now call Wal-Mart.
Never give up until you've given out all your very best. It's better to fail trying than wondering what could have happened if you tried.
All of the great historical icons in all parts of the world were at sometime faced with giving up. Michael Jordan could have given up basketball when he was cut from his high school basketball team, and not have brought to fruition the greatest basketball career of any single person. Helen Keller could have given up as she was blind and deaf, but instead she had one of the most successful careers as a writer ever, and her story has inspired people all over the world. Not giving up may be one of the hardest challenges in life to overcome, even when a situation may seem like it is a lost cause.
Its hard to hold on to something that you know would never be yours in any way you think of. You just have to learn to let go and face the fact that while good things never last, some don't even start.
There are many times in life when we badly want something or someone that we will probably never have, whether the fault lie on us, another person, or the circumstances surrounding it. Sometimes letting go of something is a very hard thing to do, especially if we never really got a chance to do things the way we wanted, because we think the situation might be different if we had the opportunity to try.
In this world we have to take chances, sometimes they're worth it and sometimes they're not, but I'm telling you now, you will never know until you try.
When we take a deep look at our lives, we realize that where we are now is a make up of the choices we have made in the past, and what we learned from those experiences. Those of us who may have been scared to take chances in the past may find ourselves wondering what could have been if we had taken the chances that we were scared of choosing. Many of people in the Business world see life as a series of Yes's and No's. Business minded individuals know that usually the worse thing that may happen is that you be denied one time, and after so many denials or "No's" there is bound to be a "Yes."
The best way to escape from the past is not to avoid or forget it, but to accept and forgive it.
One of the foremost approaches to learning in life is to make new decisions based off of previous experiences. It starts when we are young, many of us may have tried to draw near or even touch a hot stove not knowing that we would get burned, and then from that experience learn to stay away from touching hot burning stoves with no protection. This is an example of how we use our past mistakes to determine what decisions to make in our future. It is imperative that we draw from our experiences so that we won't get burned again.
Cleanse yourself with laughter and with tears. Let tears take out all the agony that is hidden inside you, and let laughter ignite your contagious joy.
Many people don't realize the great curing effects of a good laugh and a good cry. Crying is a great way to relieve emotional pain in your life. A lot of us save crying for extremely emotionally sensitive times, such as when a close loved one dies, or during a bad break up. During times like these every tear that falls down our face is an ounce of pain leaving the body. Crying is one of the greatest coping mechanisms that we have as human beings.
Stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone.
If you have ever been the only one in a large group, say a class in high school, to defend someone or something that you know is wrong, then you are what we consider a hero. Standing up for what you believe in at all times is not only one of the most admirable traits a person can possess, but is also ultimately one of the most self fulfilling ones. Standing up for what you believe in requires a great amount of courage first and foremost, but also requires a person to be knowledgeable on the subject that they are standing up for.
Welcome to today! Another day, another chance, feel free to change!
Change is essentially taking something that would otherwise remain the same and turning it into an dissimilar form. As humans we are naturally resistant to change, because with change arises new challenges. Many of us don't realize that they can make the choice to change small things in their lives daily that may amount to bigger changes for the better in their future. For example, if a person wanted to be a lawyer and did nothing with their time but worked a job at an amusement park, changing their lifestyle and looking for a low level job at a law firm, would more than likely yield a bigger return for their investment of hard work and time.
When someone walks out of your life, let them. They are just making room for someone better to walk in.
Sometimes the best thing to do for you is to let certain people leave your life. Though it may be a hard thing to do, because of the love you once shared for someone, or the time you feel you wasted if they just exit from your life now, it is probably for the better. Remember that this world is equipped with billions of people so there is probably always someone out there who will love u with more compassion, give you more of their time, tell you how much they appreciate and love you, and many other things to make you feel more loved than ever.
Each of us represents a star in heaven. Sometimes we shine with the rest, sometimes we twinkle alone, and sometimes, when we least expect it, we make someone's dreams come true.
If we think of ourselves as a star we think of ourselves as a figure that always has a light on. Trust, whether you believe it or not during this day and age, people are watching your every move to see whether or not your light will go out or not. As the old church song says "this little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine" we need to make sure our light is always shining. Living life so that everyone can see our light, or the cause that we live for, our passion.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
In the daily challenge that we refer to as "life" there are many variables of change that increase difficulty, and decrease difficulty. The variables of change that make things more difficult, for example, a car breaking down on the way to an interview, or an unexpected bill making it difficult to feed one's family, should be seen as a challenge, a setback, or an obstacle, just waiting for you to overcome it.
Dear 2011, It's a new year. New mistakes are going to make along with new promises and regrets. All I'm asking is that you'll be better than last year. I'm not praying for a miracle, I just want a better year than the one that's about to pass.
Looking forward to a new year is essential to prospering in life. Many of us don't realize that life is always about the "stretch", meaning life is always about doing things bigger and better than we have done before. New years resolutions are a good way to create a better life for yourself in the new year and in years to come. When creating your new years resolutions remember that you are not only making these resolutions for a change for a short amount of time, you should be thinking of resolutions that you will keep for the rest of your life, and that will make your life better until it ends.
Pain makes people change.
The things that we go through in our lives teach us lessons for the betterment of the rest of our lives if we choose to learn from them. Pain makes us change, sometimes for good and sometimes the worse. In order to get over our addictions and faults in life we must endure pain most times to do so, but in the end if we fight through the pain that we experience and don't cave we will achieve the change in ourselves that we desire.
The truth is that everyone's gonna hurt you. You just have to find the ones worth suffering for.
All of us have been hurt by someone that we hold dear to our heart, and if you haven't, don't fret because eventually, you will. This isn't a negative statement, but more of a realistic one, as humans by nature sometimes our own selfish desires outweigh the consequences of hurting someone that is close to us. In order to deal with the inevitable we must brace ourselves and keep our guard. Only let people in your life that you are willing to be hurt by, because anyone with an ounce of human blood in their body.
You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out of your heart is another story.
In our lives we meet people who we may only remember for five minutes, people we may only remember for five hours, people we may remember for 5 days, 5 months, 5 years, or even 5 lifetimes. When we make a bond with some people its as if that bond shapes and transforms us forever into something or someone we may never have been without meeting that person. Even when relationships end, some people have such lasting effects on our lives that years after our relationships with them end, we may still tend to think about them from time to time.
We all need that one person in our lives who we can tell everything to and trust with our lives. Otherwise life becomes so lonely and painful.
Speaking from experience, many times it is very convenient to be able to have a person to confide in and be able to tell any and everything to, at any given time, without them judging you. Though a friend like this may be exceptional, in the world we live in a friend like that may be hard to come by. Often times a friend like this will be someone you may have grew up with, or known for a long amount of time.
Sometimes just the act of sharing a painful secret can relieve some of the pain.
Sometimes secrets are like sores on top of our skin, swelling increasingly with every moment just waiting to pop. We have to relieve the pressure at some point or the pressure will be relieved on its own. We may think that secrets are necessary, but there is nothing like the freedom of being truthful. Not only does it ease the stress on your mind, but it will provide for an open clean slate in a relationship. Have something on your chest that you need to get off?
Pretending to be happy when you're in pain is just an example of how strong you are as a person.
Determinant of the circumstance, a lot of times it is heavily beneficial for a person to keep a smile on their face, even though the emotional or physical pain that they are experiencing is weighing them down. For example, when a leader is wounded emotionally or physically it would greatly affect the morale of his/her followers if he/she were to stop leading and to change the focus of leading the group to accomplish a goal to stopping everyone's journey in order to complain about a newly arisen misfortune.
One day all this pain will make sense to you.
Pain is an intense sensation of feeling, stereotypically seen as causing distress and uncomfortable, whether it be physical or emotional. The joy of being human allows for us all to experience pain, and overcoming pain is one of life's biggest challenges. A lot of people fear pain, but don't realize that through their pain they grow a tremendous amount mentally, emotionally and physically.
For example, in order for a body builder to make massive gains in size and in strength it is imperative that their bodies be pushed to the limit, leaving them in pain during and after exercise, to acquire the most out of each workout. It takes years for a body builder to turn professional but all their pain and hard work pays off in the end if they push their selves hard enough. This example is synonymous with pain in a lot of different aspects of our lives. Without hard work, dedication, and of course some pain, all gains will be minimal, it takes going through pain to see how far you have come later on in life.
For example, in order for a body builder to make massive gains in size and in strength it is imperative that their bodies be pushed to the limit, leaving them in pain during and after exercise, to acquire the most out of each workout. It takes years for a body builder to turn professional but all their pain and hard work pays off in the end if they push their selves hard enough. This example is synonymous with pain in a lot of different aspects of our lives. Without hard work, dedication, and of course some pain, all gains will be minimal, it takes going through pain to see how far you have come later on in life.
The fish said: "I can't see my tears because I'm in the water."The water said: "I can feel your tears because you're in my heart."
Lesson: We may hide our own hurts and pains but never can we lie to the people who cares for us the most. Words aren't needed for them to know how we are.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
In your lifetime there will be those who may never believe in you. What hurts the most is these same people are the people who you may desire to be proud of you, those of who you look up to and who you seek approval from. Sometimes the people who don't believe in you will be people you don't even know, just looking for someone to criticize. Whatever the case may be, it is important to note that not everyone will agree with the things that you are doing.
Never give up until you've given out all your very best. It's better to fail trying than wondering what could have happened if you tried.
All of the great historical icons in all parts of the world were at sometime faced with giving up. Michael Jordan could have given up basketball when he was cut from his high school basketball team, and not have brought to fruition the greatest basketball career of any single person. Helen Keller could have given up as she was blind and deaf, but instead she had one of the most successful careers as a writer ever, and her story has inspired people all over the world. Not giving up may be one of the hardest challenges in life to overcome, even when a situation may seem like it is a lost cause.
Take every chance drop every fear.
Taking chances, and being risky are parts of life, that many people tend to avoid. Without overcoming our fears we limit ourselves to a life full of not knowing what we are truly capable of. Taking chances is all about evaluating whether or not we want to continue living a boring life full of safety nets and restraint, or if we want to push ourselves to new limits that we never even imagined we could reach.
In this world we have to take chances, sometimes they're worth it and sometimes they're not, but I'm telling you now, you will never know until you try.
When we take a deep look at our lives, we realize that where we are now is a make up of the choices we have made in the past, and what we learned from those experiences. Those of us who may have been scared to take chances in the past may find ourselves wondering what could have been if we had taken the chances that we were scared of choosing. Many of people in the Business world see life as a series of Yes's and No's. Business minded individuals know that usually the worse thing that may happen is that you be denied one time, and after so many denials or "No's" there is bound to be a "Yes."
Devote yourself to an idea. Go make it happen. Struggle on it. Overcome your fears. Smile. Don't you forget: this is your dream.
Ideas and dreams come to us in a variety of ways, and no certain way that a dream or idea comes to us is typical. The development of a dream or idea has to be backed by usually a goal, which will stipulate to us the ultimate realization of our dreams. It is important when developing these goals not to understate or overstate the steps to achieve these goals, as we want to keep a steady pace without losing too much energy, or exerting too much at one given point that will make it likely for us to terminate the advancement of our dream if we run out of gas, or the essential energy/motivation we need to keep our dreams alive.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
In the daily challenge that we refer to as "life" there are many variables of change that increase difficulty, and decrease difficulty. The variables of change that make things more difficult, for example, a car breaking down on the way to an interview, or an unexpected bill making it difficult to feed one's family, should be seen as a challenge, a setback, or an obstacle, just waiting for you to overcome it.
It's a good day to have a good day.
Every single day is a good day to have a good day. Though there are seasons in our lives where it seems as though having a good day isn't possible, we must grab hold to the attitude that every day can be a good day if we attempt to make it one. Just because things may not have been going the way that you would like them to in a day, doesn't mean that you can't make a good day out of it.
Stop trying to control everything and just let go.
An important lesson that we all must learn in our lives is that despite all of the plans, despite all of the goals, and despite all of the direction that we try to put into our lives, sometimes life has a way of just taking us into its own direction. Not everything that we can do in life can be controlled and we have to learn to be able to let go in order to be able to free ourselves us from the weight of the past and be able to be able to fly in the future.
Maybe it's not always about trying to fix something broken. Maybe it's about starting over and creating something better.
Sometimes our lives are not about giving up, but are more about being able to be strong enough and courageous enough to move on from a situation. There are many instances in which we should all be willing to move on from a situation that is broken, and there will always be similar instances as these that we will continue to encounter throughout our lifetimes. We must learn and cope with the fact that sometimes some things in our lives just can't be fixed.
You can say sorry a million times, say I love you as much as you want, say whatever you want, whenever you want. But if you're not going to prove that the things you say are true, then don't say anything at all. Because if you can't show it, your words don't mean a thing.
The things that people say versus the things that they do are at most times much different in comparison. As the quote says we can say sorry a million times, or tell someone that we love them as much as we want, but if we are not really sorry, and if we don't really love them, it will show in the actions that we commit after we say sorry, and after we tell them that we love them.
The hardest thing to do is letting go, not because you want to but because you have to.
Sometimes in life we have to end relationships that we would rather not end. When we truly have loved someone with everything inside of us, letting go of that person does not even seem reasonable. Letting go may consist of getting over a bad childhood that brought us tremendous pain, being a victim of rape or another kind of abuse, or losing a close loved one. Sometimes we just have to let go of that person or situation because that pain is taking us farther away from our life's pursuit of happiness, whether you realize when you need to or not.
Stop thinking just live.
Open the gates and seize the day, for today is the day you start worrying about what everyone else's thoughts, and live for your own. When we choose to live in the moment, in every moment in our lives we choose to do just that. We wouldn't be human if we weren't able to think about our actions before committing to them, but sometimes we tend to over analyze situations. From this day forward make a promise to think less sometimes, and live more all the time.
